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Comment: Re:Not a problem (Score 1) 501

by ultranova (#40199807) Attached to: What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem?

So you want to pretend that there are not very clear and widely accepted standards available for what constitutes gratuitous violence and pornography?

Widely accepted standards say that trying to turn other people into unpaid babysitters because you don't want to spend time overseeing your 7-year old kid is wrong. Since you obviously don't agree, we can't possibly know how your standards may deviate from those of a normal person in any other subject.

Guess what, there is this industry called movie business and TV.

So, this is now officially about turning Wikipedia into a new-age TV nanny?

I no they are old media and that's why you may never have heard of them. They had the same kind of issues and came up with standards long time ago. Amazing isn't it?

Sorry, but no. The ratings there refer to the presence of sex, and in case of XXX movies explicit sex, not whether the sex was "gratuitous" by some neglicent parent's definition. Furthermore, there's a difference between entertainment and encyclopedia, specifically that entertainment gets to choose its topics and content while an encyclopedia gets them dictated by surrounding reality. Finally, there's a difference of orders of magnitude between the sheer amount of stuff in Wikipedia and media industry's output.

And you still haven't answered the question of just who is going to shift through the archive and new edits and mark them suitable or unsuitable for 7-year olds.

Comment: Re:Treaspassing (Score 5, Insightful) 311

by demachina (#40197137) Attached to: Whose Cameras Are Watching New York Roads?

DEA has had license plate reading cameras on U.S. highways for a while. In particular they record every car on some routes in California, Texas, Arizona and recently Utah using ELSAG cameras though they usually make no attempt to hide them.

They analyze the data looking for people transporting drugs from the Mexican border among other things. Maybe they are just expanding the program to watch the traffic along the northern border too.

So, yea welcome to the big brother police state, we've been in it a while now. Say cheese!!

Comment: Re:Try private schools (Score 2) 404

by Mr. Slippery (#40196145) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What To Do With a Math Degree?

Some public school administrators are largely a joke.

And so are some private school administrators. Private schools can mostly be divided into expensive, mostly secular, ones, which do well; Catholic schools, which do on average a little worse than public schools, and conservative religious schools, which are generally crap.

Private schools tend to be run more like companies and lousy administrators don't last.

Where does this myth that private sector companies somehow are run competently and effectively come from? Have people not worked

Comment: Re:Th world 20 years from now... (Score 1) 227

I've always suspected that this is what we're dealing with but it's nice to have it in writing.

Recently a Game of Thrones director gave an interview talking about what working on the show was like and he said it was like the SNL skit -- there's a network executive in charge of tits.

It was pretty surreal. Iâ(TM)d not done anything like that in my films before. But the weirdest part was when you have one of the exec producers leaning over your shoulder, going, âoeYou can go full frontal, you know. This is television, you can do whatever you want! And do it! I urge you to do it.â So I was like, âoeOkay, well, if youâ" youâ(TM)re the boss.â

Marshall further elaborated:

This particular exec took me to one side and said, âoeLook, I represent the pervert side of the audience, okay? Everybody else is the serious drama sideâ"I represent the perv side of the audience, and Iâ(TM)m saying I want full frontal nudity in this scene.â So you go ahead and do it.

I mean, you kind of suspect it but never thought you'd hear it stated so baldly.

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